The Blue Fairy Book, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks, sentence 70
“Indeed he does, madam,” said all her maids of honor in one breath.
Who acts: name, maids · What happens: do, say · To what, where: madam · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Pretty Goldilocks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, maids), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 does | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 does | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 6 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 does | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 madam | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 maids | advmod |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 maids | nmod:poss |
| 12 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 honor | case |
| 14 | honor | honor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 maids | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 breath | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 breath | nummod |
| 17 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honor | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | name | madam | indeed property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent madam=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | princess's maids of honor in one breath | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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